Drama and English and American Literature

Description

As one of the most wide-ranging, multi-faceted and interdisciplinary of subjects in the Arts and Humanities, Drama and Theatre naturally lends itself to joint honours study. Students taking any of the joint honours programmes in the subject area will encounter aspects of drama, theatre and performance drawn from a wide range of historical epochs, languages and cultures, and have the opportunity to explore these in theory and practice, bringing their own specialist areas of study into play in both the seminar and the rehearsal room.

English at Kent is challenging, flexible, and wide-ranging. It covers both only traditional areas (such as Shakespeare or Dickens) and newer fields such as American literature, creative writing, postcolonial literature and recent developments in literary theory. Studying for degree joint honours with another subject allows you the freedom to explore your other passions whilst developing skills associated with the study of literature.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 12450 Year (Non-EEA)

• Total Kent credits: 360
• Total ECTS credits: 180

• Total Kent credits: 360
• Total ECTS credits: 180

• English

Course Content

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

• DR315 - Modern Theatre: A Theoretical Landscape
• DR337 - The Empty Space
• EN333 - Romanticism
• EN302 - Early Drama
• EN331 - Readings in the Twentieth Century
• EN332 - Writing America

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

• EN677 - The Contemporary
• EN681 - Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature
• EN672 - Reading Victorian Literature
• EN675 - Declaring Independence: 19th Century US Literature
• EN689 - Modernism
• EN692 - Early Modern Literature 1500-1700
• EN695 - Empire, New Nations and Migration
• EN697 - Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature
• EN694 - Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• DR681 - Theatres of the Past 2: The Moderns
• DR682 - Theatre and Music
• DR594 - Popular Performance
• DR609 - European Naturalist Theatre & Its Legacy
• DR663 - Physical Theatre 1
• DR549 - Acting
• DR575 - Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
• DR612 - Shakespeare's Theatre
• DR667 - Site Specific Performance
• DR669 - European Theatre from 1945
• DR671 - Puppet and Object Theatre
• DR673 - Theatres of the Past 1: the Classics
• DR674 - Performance and Art: Intermediality from Wagner to the Virtuals

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• DR676 - Introduction to Stand Up
• DR678 - Creative Project
• DR680 - Theatre & Adaptation
• DR619 - Playwriting I: For Beginners
• DR629 - Cultural Policies in the British Theatre
• DR635 - Dance & Discourse: Dramaturgies of Moving Bodies
• DR636 - The Shakespeare Effect
• DR648 - Applied Theatre
• DR659 - Performing Classical Texts
• DR592 - New Directions
• DR548 - Theatre & Journalism
• DR664 - Physical Theatre II
• DR610 - Performing Lives: Theory & Practice of Autobiographical Theatre
• DR683 - Performing Philosophy
• EN684 - Clouds, Waves & Crows: Writing the Natural, 1800 to the Present
• EN687 - Poetry and Crisis, from the First World War to Occupy
• EN676 - Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives
• EN701 - The Global Eighteenth Century
• EN702 - Thomas Hardy
• EN703 - The 'Real' America: Class and Culture in the American Gilded Age
• EN704 - Discord and Devotion: Society & Spirituality in Middle English Literatu
• EN705 - The Contemporary Memoir
• EN707 - The British Novel in the 1860s: Sensing Modern Life
• EN708 - Virginia Woolf
• EN709 - Animals, Humans, Writing
• EN710 - Victorian Aestheticism and Decadence
• EN580 - Charles Dickens and Victorian England
• EN583 - Postcolonial Writing
• EN586 - Language and Place in Colonial and Postcolonial Poetry
• EN588 - Innovation and Experiment in New York, 1945- 1995
• EN604 - The Unknown: Reading and Writing
• EN623 - Native American Literature
• EN633 - Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature
• EN637 - Unruly Women and Other Insubordinates: the dramatic repertoire of the Q
• EN646 - Image, Vision and Dream: Medieval Texts and Visual Culture
• EN655 - Places and Journeys
• EN656 - Heroes and Exiles: An Introduction to Old English Poetry
• EN657 - The Brontes in Context
• EN658 - American Crime Fiction
• EN659 - Contemporary Irish Writing
• EN660 - Writing Lives in Early Modern England: Diaries, Letters and Secret Selv
• EN661 - The Stranger
• EN666 - From Book to Blog: Geoffrey Chaucer and his Afterlives
• EN667 - Harlem to Hogan's Alley: Black Writing in North America
• EN668 - Discovery Space: New Theatres in Early Modern England
• EN669 - Marriage, Desire and Divorce in Early Modern Literature
• EN670 - Lyric, Ballad and Popular Song

Requirements

The University will consider applications from students offering a wide range of qualifications, typical requirements are listed below, students offering alternative qualifications should contact the Admissions Office for further advice. It is not possible to offer places to all students who meet this typical offer/minimum requirement.

Qualification / Typical offer/minimum requirement

• ABB including English Literature or English Language and Literature grade B

• The University of Kent will not necessarily make conditional offers to all access candidates but will continue to assess them on an individual basis. If an offer is made candidates will be required to obtain/pass the overall Access to Higher Education Diploma and may also be required to obtain a proportion of the total level 3 credits and/or credits in particular subjects at merit grade or above.

• The university will consider applicants holding BTEC National Diploma and Extended National Diploma Qualifications (QCF; NQF;OCR) on a case by case basis please contact us via the enquiries tab for further advice on your individual circumstances.

• 34 points overall or 16 at HL including HL English A1/A2/B at 5/6/6 OR HL English Literature A/English Language and Literature A (or Literature A/Language and Literature A of another country) at HL 5 or SL 6

The University receives applications from over 140 different nationalities and consequently will consider applications from prospective students offering a wide range of international qualifications. Our International Development Office will be happy to advise prospective students on entry requirements. See our International Student website for further information about our country-specific requirements.

Please note that if you need to increase your level of qualification ready for undergraduate study, we offer a number of International Foundation Programmes through Kent International Pathways.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Kent.